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work being taken up by E. L. Dakan. T. J. Talbert, extension entomologist, 

 has also been given leave of absence during the war to serve as executive sec- 

 retary for the Federal Food Administrator of Missouri. D. A. Spencer, assist- 

 ant professor of animal husbandry and assistant animal husbandman at the 

 college and station, has been appointed to take up special work in sheep hus- 

 bandry in the agricultural extension service. 



Nebraska TTniversity and Station. — Dr. L. Van Es, dean of the veterinary 

 division of the North Dakota College and acting director of that station at the 

 present time, has been appointed in charge of the department of animal pa- 

 thology beginning July 1. Laboratories for the department are shortly to be 

 erected at a cost of from $60,000 to $100,000, and a special State appropriation 

 is also available for research in animal diseases. 



E. E. Brackett, associate professor of agricultural engineering, and I. D. 

 Wood, extension assistant professor of agricultural engineering, have been 

 granted leave of absence for war service as first and second lieutenant, respec- 

 tively, in the aviation section. Howard N. Colman resigned as instructor in 

 dairy husbandry, March 1, to become superintendent of the advanced registry 

 work at the Washington College, and has been succeeded by M. N. Lawritson. 



Cornell University. — Miss Martha Van Rensselaer has received leave of ab- 

 sence from the department of home economics to become director of the division 

 of home economics of the U. S. Food Administration, beginning early in March. 



Cecil C. Thomas has resigned as instructor in botany to accept a position 

 with the plant disinfection work of the Federal Horticultural Board. 



Ohio State University. — S. M. Salisbury has resigned as assistant professor 

 of animal husbandry to become agricultural agent for Medina County. 



Oregon College and Station. — John Martin, superintendent of the Belle Fourche 

 substation of the Bureau of Plant Industry in South Dakota, has been ap- 

 pointed superintendent of the Harney substation, vice L, R. Breithaupt, re- 

 signed to engage in farming. J. E. Cooter has resigned as instructor in soils 

 to become instructor in agriculture in a Portland high school and supervisor 

 of school gardens in that city. 



Porto Rico Insular Station. — Because of the shortage of funds in the Insular 

 treasury, the act recently passed for the reorganization of the station will 

 not go into effect before July 1. This act establishes a number of new posi- 

 tions in the divisions of plant pathology, chemistry, entomology, and horti- 

 culture, as well as providing for 2 agricultural inspectors and 10 subinspectors. 



W. V. Tower resigned as director in December, 1917, and has become ento- 

 mologist in the Federal Station at Mayaguez. He has been succeeded by E. 

 Col6n. Leave of absence has been given R. T. Cotton, entomologist, and he is 

 attending an officers' training camp at San Jiian. R. C. Rose, assistant patholo- 

 gist, is on leave of absence as a lieutenant in the Reserve Officers' Corps. Luis 

 Daviia, assistant entomologist, has resigned to enter commercial work. 



Clemson College. — Dr. Wilson Gee, professor of biologj- at Emory University, 

 has been appointed assistant director of extension work. 



Utah Station. — J. W. Jones of the Office of Cereal Investigations of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, who has been superintendent of the Nephi sub- 

 station for several years, has been transferred to the rice experimental farm 

 at Biggs, Cal. The vacancy will be filled by Aaron F. Bracken, formerly 

 assistant agronomist of the station and recently a county agent in the State. 

 Irving J. Jensen has been appointed assistant agronomist, vice N. I. Butt re- 

 signed to engage in farming. 



Vermont University and Station. — George F. E. Story, head of the department 

 of animal and dairy husbandry, has resigned to become director of the Wor- 

 cester County (Mass.) Farm Bureau. 



